SWAP, CropSyst and MACRO comparison in two contrasting soils cropped with maize in Northern Italy

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 97, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1051-1062

  Bonfante, A ^a   Basile, A ^a   Acutis, M ^b   De Mascellis, R ^a   Manna, P ^c   Perego, A ^b   Terribile, F ^c  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hydrological models; Model evaluation; Soil water content; TDR

Indexed keywords

BARE SOILS; CAMPBELL; CLIMATE SYSTEM; CORRELATION STATISTICS; DRAINAGE PROCESS; DRYING PROCESS; FIELD SCALE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY CURVE; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; MODEL EVALUATION; NORTHERN ITALY; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PLANT GROWTH; QUALITY SIMULATION; RICHARDS' EQUATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SANDY SOILS; SOIL PROFILES; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SURFACE INFILTRATION; TECHNIQUES USED; THREE MODELS; UNDISTURBED SOILS; UNSATURATED ZONE; UPPER BOUNDARY; WATER BALANCE; WATER FLOWS; WATER REDISTRIBUTION; WATER RETENTION;

CALIBRATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HYDRAULICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLANT LIFE EXTENSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER CONTENT;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

AGRONOMY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INFILTRATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LABORATORY METHOD; LOAMY SAND; MAIZE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PEDOLOGY; RICHARDS EQUATION; SOIL WATER; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; VADOSE ZONE; WATER BUDGET; WATER RETENTION;

ITALY;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77950541593     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2010.02.010     Document Type: Article

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